unemployment
“The PM is wrong: the labour market is very weak”
Richard Exell runs through the latest figures from the labour market, and finds that "it is very weak and the prospects for unemployed people are very poor."
Cameron needs to start backing our young people and universities
The number of jobless 16 to 24-year-olds has risen by 52,000, to 1.04 million, which is the highest number since records began in 1992, writes UCU’s Sally Hunt.
Design agencies face a second year of talent exodus in 2012
Rachel Fairley presents the problems design agencies are having as we sink into a second recession.
Thatcher’s corrosive legacy: The UK’s abandoned inner cities
It was revealed today that Margaret Thatcher was advised to abandon Liverpool to “managed decline” by Geoffrey Howe in 1981; Gavin Knight looks at her legacy.
The south is on its way out of recession, but the north is stuck
IPPR North report on the growing economic split between the north and south of England; while the former may be recovering, the latter is stagnating - or worse.
Unemployment: How Cameron and Clegg are letting the next generation down
Today’s unemployment figures provide a grim reckoning of the mounting human, social, and long-term economic cost of thE government’s failures on the economy.